- Video transcript. [0:00] [music]. Dr. Steven Zucker: [0:04] We’re in the l’Orangerie in Paris, and we’re looking at one of Monet’s Water Lily rooms.
- Monet used a small stream that ran through his property to build a huge pond which he filled with water lilies and crossed with a humpbacked bridge.
- Water Lilies by Claude Monet, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1983.532.JPG 4,272 × 2,744; 1.89 MB. Water Lilies MET DT1856.jpg 3,811 × 2,486; 3.4 MB.
- Water Lilies (French: Nymphéas [nɛ.fe.a]) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926).
- Around the time this painting was created, Claude Monet began working on the water-lily panoramas that were installed in the Musée de l’Orangerie after his death.
- Claude Monet, Water-Lilies, after 1916. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.
- The Impressionist paintings of water lilies (nymphéas) created by Claude Monet during the last thirty years of his life, are often considered by art critics to...
- This interest culminated in a series of around 250 large-scale oil paintings. Today, the Claude Monet Water Lilies are among his most well-known work.
- Water Lilies is a series of some 250 oil paintings created by Claude Monet from the late 1890s to 1926 that were focused on the water lily pond in his garden.
- Claude Monet's Water Lilies (1908) famous painting. Original from the Dallas Museum of Art. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.